Female guppies giving birth....

Should a female guppy that has just given birth ever die from giving
birth? I know giving birth is hard for some animals but my female
guppy just gave birth to around a dozen or so beautiful babies and
died. I think it's great to have these babies now and I guess they
will take up were their mother left off but I feel compelled to
investigate the mother's death as she has been with me for a long time
and only recently showed signs of actual pregnancy. It seemed like she
had been pregnant before just not as much and if she was before then
the fact that up until a few days ago she had malnutrition as only a
few days ago I began supplementing their boring diet of flake food
with a supplement of live newly hatched brine shrimp and the fish
seemed to love it except she didn't respond much and today I found her
dead. I used a brine shrimp hatchery kit from san Francisco bay brand.
Summary of my question - how common is it for a guppy mother to die
after giving birth, from exhaustion or something similar? Thanks and
see you all later.

it sometimes happens, also guppies aswell as all live bearers have a shorter
lifespan of 1-2 years. as long as your water parameters are good
ammonia-0ppm, nitrites-0ppm, nitrates-0-40ppm then i wouldnt worry .

"Daniel Morrow" <videoman.TakeThisOut@cdsnet.net> wrote in message
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> Should a female guppy that has just given birth ever die from giving
> birth? I know giving birth is hard for some animals but my female
> guppy just gave birth to around a dozen or so beautiful babies and
> died. I think it's great to have these babies now and I guess they
> will take up were their mother left off but I feel compelled to
> investigate the mother's death as she has been with me for a long time
> and only recently showed signs of actual pregnancy. It seemed like she
> had been pregnant before just not as much and if she was before then
> the fact that up until a few days ago she had malnutrition as only a
> few days ago I began supplementing their boring diet of flake food
> with a supplement of live newly hatched brine shrimp and the fish
> seemed to love it except she didn't respond much and today I found her
> dead. I used a brine shrimp hatchery kit from san Francisco bay brand.
> Summary of my question - how common is it for a guppy mother to die
> after giving birth, from exhaustion or something similar? Thanks and
> see you all later.